Post by tnarrud on Oct 17, 2019 20:12:51 GMT
Before my second expulsion from the main wiki, I was trying to put up entries for two lost vintage TV episodes. The first is Dragonsfield,
the last aired episode of the first season of the Avengers television series and the only one not to feature Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel. In this episode, John Steed travels to the new Dragonsfield Space Centre to stop a saboteur who has killed one of the technicians. With the aid of Security Chief Saunders, Steed presents himself to the team of scientists working at Dragonsfield as a willing test subject for a simulated launch in a decompression chamber. However, the saboteur has beaten him to the punch and Steed collapses from the pain caused by the air pressure increase. While Steed recovers from the accident, he has Saunders track down the saboteur's handlers, who are found in an inn in the actual Dragonfield village below the space centre. These men give him the name of the saboteur: Dr. Susan Summers, a British scientist who is a member of the team. Saunders and Steed stop Susan from strangling to death another member of the team, Dr. Lisa Strauss, and it is revealed that the country she works for has launched its own orbiting manned viewing platform into space and sent her to stop the launch of the British/American platfrom being built at Dragonsfield.
The second lost episode is A Counterfeit Christmas, the only known Christmas episode of a television series known as Treasury Men in Action in its original run and Federal Men in syndication due to the original sponsor owning the rights to the earlier title. In this episode, based probably on the Emerich Juettner case, a counterfeiter prints fake one dollar bills after the death of his wife and uses them to buy the basic necessities that he needs to survive, which Juttner did for the better part of a decade. These bills were poorly made and full of errors, such as "Washington" being spelled ""Wahsinton," and were used very sparingly. After a fire in his apartment, Juettner threw out his counterfeiting materials into the street, where they were found by children who brought them home to their parents (hence the title). The parents alerted the Secret Service, and eventually Juettner was arrested, tried for counterfeiting, and sentenced to a year and a day in jail. The file was made into a film, Man 880, starring Edmund Gwenn as the main character - who was a Scot in the film version, not a German - and was based fully on the main facts of the case.
Since I am no longer allowed to contribute entries on the wiki itself, I am donating my knowledge of these two lost episodes here, in the hopes that one of you will be kind enough to use it to create entries of your own. I actually saw Man 880 on the TVO series Magic Shadows as a young boy aged about twelve, and I think I can say it made quite an impression on me.
the last aired episode of the first season of the Avengers television series and the only one not to feature Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel. In this episode, John Steed travels to the new Dragonsfield Space Centre to stop a saboteur who has killed one of the technicians. With the aid of Security Chief Saunders, Steed presents himself to the team of scientists working at Dragonsfield as a willing test subject for a simulated launch in a decompression chamber. However, the saboteur has beaten him to the punch and Steed collapses from the pain caused by the air pressure increase. While Steed recovers from the accident, he has Saunders track down the saboteur's handlers, who are found in an inn in the actual Dragonfield village below the space centre. These men give him the name of the saboteur: Dr. Susan Summers, a British scientist who is a member of the team. Saunders and Steed stop Susan from strangling to death another member of the team, Dr. Lisa Strauss, and it is revealed that the country she works for has launched its own orbiting manned viewing platform into space and sent her to stop the launch of the British/American platfrom being built at Dragonsfield.
The second lost episode is A Counterfeit Christmas, the only known Christmas episode of a television series known as Treasury Men in Action in its original run and Federal Men in syndication due to the original sponsor owning the rights to the earlier title. In this episode, based probably on the Emerich Juettner case, a counterfeiter prints fake one dollar bills after the death of his wife and uses them to buy the basic necessities that he needs to survive, which Juttner did for the better part of a decade. These bills were poorly made and full of errors, such as "Washington" being spelled ""Wahsinton," and were used very sparingly. After a fire in his apartment, Juettner threw out his counterfeiting materials into the street, where they were found by children who brought them home to their parents (hence the title). The parents alerted the Secret Service, and eventually Juettner was arrested, tried for counterfeiting, and sentenced to a year and a day in jail. The file was made into a film, Man 880, starring Edmund Gwenn as the main character - who was a Scot in the film version, not a German - and was based fully on the main facts of the case.
Since I am no longer allowed to contribute entries on the wiki itself, I am donating my knowledge of these two lost episodes here, in the hopes that one of you will be kind enough to use it to create entries of your own. I actually saw Man 880 on the TVO series Magic Shadows as a young boy aged about twelve, and I think I can say it made quite an impression on me.
